How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

Bob Benjamin is an ORHS Class of 1983 alumnus who has tirelessly worked to figure out what the Milky Way looks like.

Early this year, a surprise space rock made headlines around the globe when the International Asteroid Warning Network sounded its highest alarm since its creation in 2013. Threat levels for the newly ...

Young star systems are a place of violent collisions. Rocks, comets, asteroids and larger objects carom off one another and ...

Young star systems are a place of violent collisions. Rocks, comets, asteroids and larger objects bounce off one another and ...

Asteroid 2025 XM’s recent flyby offered a reminder of how closely Earth is watched for cosmic hazards. The plane‑sized object ...

The end of every semester brings new things to be excited about. For me, it’s always opening up Bionic, selecting my classes, inputting them into a temporary calendar, pressing submit, and leaving ...

At the UW, hundreds apply each year for the astronomy department’s graduate program, and a maximum of seven are accepted. But for the next year, they won’t be accepting any graduate students, due to ...

"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental ...

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In Part 2 of his story, Benita Albert tells of astronomer Bob Benjamin's career, including teaching and now being a NASA consultant.